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  • What? No!

    The point is that it is impossible to have support of every single software you use in-house. So it is better to outsource it to companies who have specialized support on hand 24/7, and who have been solving those kinds of issues every single day of the year. They don’t need to flip through the documentation in order to solve it.

    In companies, a problem that causes the entire company from being unable to generate profit for 24hours costs way more than a support contract.




  • Nah, in Idiocracy, being smart is seen as evil. You get beaten up for reading books.

    What we have is pseudointelligence. People who aren’t smart pretending like they are. That is why we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, climate change-deniers, alpha males, healing crystals, … All of them think they are smart and have hidden knowledge everyone else is lacking.








  • That is not how it works.

    They keep a log of the 3 (or more) previously used passwords. If you try to change to any of them, it will give you this error.

    So if you changed your password and then forgot. Changing it back to the password before that will tell you not to use previous passwords even if it is not the current password.



  • Because businesses need support. They need to be able to rely on others to quickly get everything back in order or they lose money.

    And since Linux does not have any (except for RedHat), they would need to have that support in-house. Which is a lot more expensive and still does not give all the expertise that big companies like Microsoft have.

    For consumers it is free, but for businesses it costs a lot more money than using corporate standard software.